Try using the failed hdd as a slave in a Linux machine. You might find that the hdd won't boot to OS but may have enough in it to access the file system.
----- Reply message ----- From: "ext Uwe Brauer" <o...@mat.ucm.es> Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 21:31 Subject: hard disk crash: how to discover the db? To: "mysql@lists.mysql.com" <mysql@lists.mysql.com> Hello This is a real nightmare. A Mac crashed, the hard disk could be saved. Right now it can't be booted. But I don't know precisely the version of the OS (most likely Mac X 10.4), nor the version of mysql (most likely 5.3.x) and to make things worse I did not generate a dump. So is there any change to recover the db? Could I just try to copy the relevant directory which contains the db say to a linux machine and hope for the best? Any advice is strongly appreciated since a wiki is in that db. regards Uwe Brauer -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=andrew.2.mo...@nokia.com
